Stories from Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Greenville High School announces their Students of the Month. Lilly Lomax, daughter of Ricky and Sandra Lomax of Greenville, Mo., has been named Student of the Month. She is active in BETA, FBLA, Pep Club, A+ and Spanish Club. Lomax plans to attend Three Rivers College and major in business management...

Poplar Bluff R-1 School District will hold Early Childhood Center screening appointments for 2013-14 school year Friday, May 10, Monday, May 13, and Tuesday, May 14. If you or anyone you know lives in the Poplar Bluff R-1 School district and has a child who will be three years old before July 31 and will not be five years old before July 31 call the Early Childhood Center at 785-6803 for more information about having a child screened for the 2013-14 school year...

By BILL O'REILLY On Easter Sunday evening, a TV show about good and evil aired on the History Channel -- the final installment of "The Bible" miniseries in which Jesus is executed. AMC ran the season-ending episode of "The Walking Dead" -- the series where zombies try to eat the brains of human beings. One footnote: The world might have been a better place had the zombies preemptively gotten to the guy who thought up this series in the first place...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The old libertarian battle cry came to mind when the news hit, two weeks ago, that Cyprus was about to confiscate 7 percent of all the insured deposits in the island's two biggest banks. Nicosia also planned to siphon off 10 percent of uninsured deposits, those above 100,000 euros ($130,000), and use that cash as well to finance Cyprus' share of a eurozone bailout...

By MONA CHAREN Same-sex marriage is probably inevitable in America whatever the Supreme Court decides. That's because the public is clearly leaning that way. That the Court is even being asked to impose a sweeping social change on the nation is illustrative of another lost battle -- the idea that the Supreme Court is not a super-legislature and that nine robed lawyers ought to refrain from imposing their policy preferences on the whole nation...

Twin Rivers High School February students of the month are freshman Logan Schalk, sophomore Larrisa Reed, junior Jesse Brown and senior Nathan Ezernack. Schalk is the son of Robert and Sonya Schalk. He has been rewarded with being on the Merit Roll. In his free time, Schalk enjoys helping his dad with mechanical work. He is undecided on his plans after high school...

Altrusa International, Inc., will host its Fourth Annual "Poor Man's Dinner" on Monday, April 15. Dinner will be served from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the First Christian Church located at the corner of N. Main and Davis streets. ...